June 8, 2026

We're celebrating the achievements of LAUC-I members! The following items (arranged alphabetically by librarian) were self-reported and accomplished during 2025. This content was originally posted on the LAUC-I website. 

Kathryn Anderson (Research and Instruction Law Librarian)

• Kathryn Anderson, The Challenges of Funding California County Law Libraries, 44 LEG. REFERENCE SERVICES Q. 144-176 (June 2025). Authored article exploring the history of the California county law libraries and their funding; the impacts of funding fluctuations and uncertainty on libraries and their communities; and how county law libraries have responded to fiscal challenges.

Anastasia Armendariz (Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian)

• Co-authored an original research article, "Fevered Inheritances: Ethics of Care and Donor Power in Starchives" in 'Archivaria.'
• Presented "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Book & Special Collections Curatorship," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, July 2025.

Carrie Cullen (Research Librarian for Physical Sciences and Systematic Review Librarian)

• Worked with OIT Classroom Technologies to add the Morphic accessibility tool to the standard installation package for all classroom and lab computers on the Irvine campus. 

Wasila Dahdul (Data Curation Librarian)

• Co-authored an original research article:
  Mehrab, K. S., Maruf, M., Daw, A., Neog, A., Manogaran, H. B., Khurana, M., Feng, Z., Altintas, B., Bakis, Y., Campolongo, E. G., Thompson, M. J., Wang, X., Lapp, H., Berger-Wolf, T., Mabee, P., Bart, H., Chao, W.-L., Dahdul, W. M., & Karpatne, A. (2025, June). Fish-Vista: A multi-purpose dataset for understanding & identification of traits from images. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 24275–24285). IEEE.

Jenna Dufour (Visual Arts Librarian)

• Book review of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer edited by Amos Paul Kennedy. Letterform Archive Books, September 2024. Analytics: 127 downloads; 283 views. 

Audra Eagle Yun (Head of Special Collections & Archives and University Archivist)

• Co-edited a monograph, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series III, Volume 6), published by the Society of American Archivists.

Liz Galoozis (DEIA Strategies Librarian)

• Co-presented with Katherine Kapsidelis (UCLA): "Scaffolded Approaches to Teaching Critical Information Evaluation Skills" at the Conference on the First Year Experience, February 2025.
• Co-presented with Lisa Cheby (CSUN), Cybele Garcia Kohel (CSUN), and Lauren Salerno (formerly Los Angeles Public Library): "Dwelling in Possibility: How Libraries Can Help Your Writing Career," Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, March 2025.
• Co-presented workshop with Julie Adamo (Middlebury College) and Caro Pinto (Mount Holyoke College: "Real Talk in a Brave Space for Job Seekers," Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, April 2025.

Becca Gates (Research Librarian for Health Sciences)

• This past year I completed the Research Training Institute through the Medical Library Association, which culminated with a poster presentation at the annual conference. My research was on health sciences libraries' employees understandings of disability and I collected my data through surveying. My next step is publication!

Sara Heimann (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Librarian)

• As a member of the Business Information Sources Committee of the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of ALA’s RUSA Division, I served as co-editor of the Outstanding Business Information Sources 2025 column. The column provides reviews of "outstanding" and "notable" business information sources published since May of the previous year.
• I completed six, month-long courses to earn a Certificate in Library Leadership and Management from Library Juice Academy (LJA). Course topics included: leadership communication; implementing and managing organizational change; employee recruitment, retention, and development; and strategic planning.

Danielle Kane (Computational Research Librarian)

• Poster and presentation at WorldCon 2025 as part of their academic track.
  In an infinite number of planets, and in a world where you could wear anything, why do all the librarians look alike? Why do they still wear their hair in a bun? We propose to analyze the text of all novels and novellas of the Hugo nominees and winners from 1939-2024; doing a textual analysis using R to find reference(s) to librarians, libraries and other mentions of research to see how depictions of this important category changes (or not) over time, and how our imaginings of this also evolve.

Recordings, slides, and documents from the UC Libraries Forum 2025 are available in eScholarship. 

March 20, 2026

LAUC-B librarian Ann Glusker, Liaison Librarian for Sociology, Demography, Psychology, & School of Social Welfare and Librarian for Research Methods has released "Librarians Navigating Change," an oral history project. The collection of 15 interview transcripts are available on the University of California’s eScholarship platform. 

These interviews focus on changes in libraries, and particularly librarianship, over the past 40 years, as related by long-time UC Berkeley librarians. The collection comprises about 400 pages of transcripts, with narrators from a range of roles and services in this complex academic library setting, who were interviewed in April-May 2025. In this collection you’ll find content related to:

• Careers in librarianship
• Changes in library service provision (especially the impact of COVID)
• Technological change and adaptations
• Changes in collection processes, publishing, and purchasing
• Budgets, budgets, budgets
• Organizational changes and their impact on collaboration and morale
• Reflections on the rewards and difficulties of being an academic librarian
• Advice for future generations of librarians, as the landscape changes dramatically

One interview tells the story of a black market for purchasing UC Berkeley Library passwords on Telegraph Avenue back in the day. 

Read more about Ann and the oral history project in this UC Berkeley Library News article. 

January 29, 2026

Stephanie Labou, UC San Diego Data Science Librarian, was elected to a four-year term as USA Member at Large for IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology), an international organization of professionals who advance information technology and data services to support research and teaching. LAUC members might be interested in some of the free IASSIST webinars on various data-related topics such as analysis tools, visualization, integration of genAI, and curation. Plus, the annual conference will be virtual this year, so if anyone is interested in learning more about data, this would be a good year to attend.

Zemirah Ngow, UC San Diego Life and Health Sciences Collection Strategist, is a co-author of the article “Beyond the Microscope: Integrating Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Principles in Immunology Education through the IDE-A Rubric,” published in Frontiers in Education. Zemirah was also a panel member for the sessions “Cutting Deep: Two Campuses Navigate Abrupt and Unexpected Collections Budget Reductions” and “Critical Care: UC Libraries and Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions” at the UC Libraries Forum 2025. Zemirah is currently a participant of the Medical Librarian Association Research Training Institute (RTI) for Health Science Librarians. Log in to read Zemirah's full Featured Member interview. 

Lisa Ngo, who is the Assistant Head, Sciences Division and STEM Research & Instructional Services Lead at the UC Berkeley Sciences Library, has been announced as a winner of the 2025 UC Berkeley Distinguished Librarian Award. Ngo is a passionate problem solver, and has spearheaded efforts to make the Science Library more inclusive and accessible. Ngo is also an alumna of UC Irvine, where she held her first library job. Read more about Ngo at the UC Berkeley Libraries News page.

Ramona Collins, a Law Librarian at UC Berkeley Law Library and UC Berkeley alumna, has been announced as a winner of the 2025 UC Berkeley Distinguished Librarian Award. From ILS migration to invaluable legal research, Collins leaves a remarkable legacy on the Law Library. On June 26th, she will celebrate the final day of her 24-year career on the Law Library. Read more about Collins at the UC Berkeley Libraries News page. 

Biswas, Continuing Resources Metadata Librarian at UCLA Library, was honored for her work leading UCLA Library’s Ethical Description Project Team (EDPT). EDPT supports inclusive access to UCLA collections. EDPT has created resources such as a catalog-wide Ethical Description Statement and a research guide on ethical description work. 

Read more about Biswas' achievements at UCLA's Newsroom. 

The California Digital Library is pleased to announce the publication of a final report from the IMLS-funded “Building a National Finding Aid Network” (NAFAN) research project (2020-2023).

The Mellon Foundation is providing $1.1 million support for Project LEND (Library Expansion of Networked Delivery), a two-year project that the UC Davis Library will lead on behalf of the 10-campus UC system. Read more.

Mellon Foundation awards Library $250,000 to preserve audiovisual items in heavily-used research collection. Read more.